FDA staff seek new warning on Baxter anesthetic

（2008.3.21 Fri，Reuters）
（轉載自http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2114791920080322）

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulatory staff have recommended updating the prescribing instructions for a Baxter International anesthesia drug after three reports of cardiac arrest in children, documents released on Friday said.

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"The contributory role of desflurane could not be excluded" in the three reports of cardiac arrest in children, FDA staff wrote in a summary prepared for an outside advisory panel.

"However, the simultaneous use of concomitant medications during anesthesia confounded the causality assessment of these cases," the agency reviewers said.

All three of the patients recovered with treatment.

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